SUMMARY

• In - depth knowledge of all QA Phases that include Manual, Functional, System, Unit, Integration, End-to-end, Business Process testing.
• Good Expertise in Manual Testing & Automated Testing using Automation tools.
• Over 6 years of IT experience with more than five years of both manual and automated testing experience in various domains.
• Successfully executed projects in Financial, Banking, Healthcare, Insurance domains and willing to work in challenging environment in any domain/industry.
• Experienced in configuration and implementation of Mercury Interactive test suites: Quick Test Professional, Quality Center and Load Runner.
• Excellent in developing system test plans, performance test plans, test strategy, test cases, test data, test checklists, defect tracking & reporting, preparing test summary report, and conducting status meetings.
• Executing test cases, ad-hoc product testing, reporting bugs and reporting tester status, writing test scripts, test automation using diverse testing tools like QTP, Quality Center, WinRunner, LoadRunner.
• Experience in testing stand-alone and Client/Server applications using Functional, White Box, Black Box, Integration, System, Load, Security testing, End-to-End testing, Smoke testing, Performance testing, Disaster Recovery testing, Web testing, Stress testing, User Acceptance Testing, Boundary testing and O/S compatibility testing.
• Strong skills in back end testing using SQL queries, generating reports to ensure data integrity and in validating business rules.
• Extensive knowledge in various stages of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and Project Management Methodologies.
• Hands on experience in Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and Rational Unified Process (RUP)
• Dynamic and assertive team player with a strong inclination to improve and optimize processes/implementation.
• Able to come up to speed quickly and handle multiple tasks concurrently in a fast-paced environment.
• Excellent organizational, communicational, analytical and interpersonal skills.
• Strong in analyzing business specifications.
• Team oriented, result oriented, with the ability to work on multiple tasks and meet deadlines.
• Excellent interpersonal, communication and presentation skills.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Operating Systems: MS-DOS, Windows 95/98/NT/00/XP, UNIX, LINUX

Languages: C/C++, JAVA, JSP, XML, HTML, SQL Plus, TSL

Databases: Oracle 7i /8i/9i,SQL Server 2000,MS-Access

GUI: Visual Basic6.0, VB .Net, JSP, ASP

Functional Testing: Quick Test Professional

Test Management: Quality Center

Version Control: Visual Source Safe

Browsers: Netscape Navigator and Internet Explorer

Other Skills: MS Project, Visio 2000,MS Excel, Crystal Reports

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Mettawa, IL

Internal Transaction Matching (FTP-ITM)

Responsibilities:

• Identify and report on unmatched internal transaction balances that compromise the integrity of the consolidated financial statements
• Automated matching and confirmation of internal transaction balances on a daily basis, to facilitate the resolution of issues as they arise
• Systemically improve the internal transaction matching process by providing daily visibility of global internal transaction differences at both consolidation levels and individual reporting units.
• Transfer responsibility for internal transaction difference resolution to the reporting units from the consolidation units.
• Created artifacts like Business Vision, Business Glossary, Business Architecture Document, Business Modeling Guidelines and Business Use Case Models
• Involved in preparing project plans and identifying major milestones for each stage as per the SDLC model (RUP Methodology).
• Prepared Test Plans (Unit, Integration, Functional, and System), build Test Scenarios and wrote Test Cases based on Functional Documents viz. Application Software Architecture Document (ASAD), Application Specific Requirements and Interfaces (ASRI).
• Managed, executed and reported Test Cases and Test activities in Rational Test Manager for manual and automated testing.
• Facilitated JAD sessions to identify business rules and requirements with Business Teams. Then documented them in a format that can be reviewed and understood by both business people and technical people.
• Proposed and implemented processes to improve Testing and Defect resolution phase, hence improve Software Quality.
• Independently handled crucial component of the application in following phases:
• Understood requirements from business team through meetings and presentations.
• Prepared Test Plan and reviewed Test Cases.
• Delivered ensured quality in the estimated time frame and achieved best performance award.
• Worked closely with developers and Business Analysts (BA) to enhance functional understanding and better defect resolution.
• Prioritized, Reviewed and signed off the Inventory of the Test cases in Test Manager and Clear Case.
• Created, maintained and executed Quick Test Pro (QTP) scripts in Quality Center to organize and control testing process.
• Extensively used QTP checkpoints to verify aspects in GUI, Functional, Smoke, Regression and User Acceptance testing phases.
• Used parameterization to validate test case with different sets of data.
• Handled generic properties of the object by Descriptive Programming in QTP.
• Created and executed complex database queries to validate database performance and integrity during testing process.
• Tracked and reported daily execution status to clients in status meetings for phase1 and phase2 issues.
• Logged and tracked defects and enhancements in Clear Quest and to assigned to Developers.
• Discuss the testing milestones with Clients to expedite testing process and meet deadlines.
• Retested the failed Test Cases using regression scripts in QTP by setting the priority and performed Integration Testing.
• Prepared Traceability Matrix after all testing activities to map requirements with Test Cases at each testing phase.

Confidential, Malvern PA

Software Quality Assurance Tester - Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed Business requirements, module specific functionalities, identified testing requirements and formulated Test plans. All the test plans were documented and managed using TestDirector.
• Worked as a Member of the QA team, responsible for system testing before deployment.
• Created test plans, based on the requirements and system specifications for HL7 inbound and outbound testing.
• Created and executed test plans for other modules such as StartPage ( InfoCenter), Secure Health Messaging etc.
• Conducted peer reviews for the Test plan. Participated in walkthroughs and technical reviews all through the testing phase.
• Followed the HL7 Mapping interface guide for creation of HL7 messages for testing purpose.
• Involved in the configuration of HL7 Interfaces (HL7 Executive, HL7 Manager and HL7 worker) for the entire testing environment.
• Installed, Configured and Upgraded the entire testing environment for the SunriseXA application as required
• Created test scripts for acceptance testing using WinRunner
• Used regular expressions and user-defined functions for creation of automation scripts. Parameterization was used extensively.
• Created and executed test plans for PocketXA, the version of SunriseXA for pocket pc.
• Installed and configured the different components of SunriseXA application. This included the Enterprise Server, Master Database server, Repository server, Notification server etc.
• Installed and configured SQL Server 2000 for the testing environment.
• Installed and configured MS Sharepoint Portal Server for SunriseXA InfoCenter module.
• Involved in the application of patches and hotfixes to the application as required.
• Performed documentation (Install Guide and Upgrade Guide) testing.
• Effectively used TestDirector for defect reporting and tracking
• Conducted Regression testing for defect fixes and enhancements

Environment: HP Quality Center, Quick Test Pro (QTP), Selenium, SQL Server, IIS, DB2, Oracle, SQL Server, Sybase and MS Sharepoint Portal Server

Confidential, Medford, NY

Quality Assurance Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Developed the test cases using business use cases and business requirement document.
• Ensured that requirements are traced to use cases and business functions.
• Extensively used Quick Test Pro methods to create automated scripts and also created reusable actions to maintain the test when application changes.
• Extensively worked with VB Scripting to customize and enhance the scripts.
• Wrote test cases to test the application manually in Quality Center and automated using Quick Test Pro.
• Performed Functional, Integration, UI, Regression, Positive, Smoke and Negative testing.
• Tested web based application for browser compatibility in Microsoft Internet Explorer, FireFox.
• Used SQL/source applications to create data necessary for testing purposes.
• Used Quality center for testing requirements, test cases, reporting bugs and work completion status as well as convert test plans and test case into e* docs (electronic documents).
• Documented and communicated test results to the Test Management and Business Management Team.
• Involved in defect meetings to find resolutions for the issues raised as well as track the reoccurrence of issue and verify across various builds.

Environment: Microsoft Visual Studio.Net 2005, ASP.Net 2.0, SQL server 2000, QTP, Quality Center, MS Visio.

Confidential, Mount Laurel, NJ

Senior Test Engineer/Automation Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Actively involved in testing the application, manually and automation.
• Understanding the business document and participated in review reports.
• Participated in the System Test Plan reviews, Test Scenarios, Test Cases Review and modified the documents with respect to the review comments
• Gather the relevant test data necessary for the test cases, based on the Business Analysis, Requirement specs, Business process Procedures, Scenarios, Transactions and Test Conditions.
• Performed Database Validation Testing and manipulations using SQL.
• Involved in Interfaces testing using FileZilla to import and export files.
• Used Quality Center to prepare Test cases, procedures and Requirements Traceability Matrix.
• Involved in System testing, Functional testing, Regression testing, Smoke testing, and GUI testing.
• Involved in the preparation of Test Analysis Reports and defect profile document.
• Performed Data-Driven tests by passing different sets of data and checked whether the valid information entered is updated into the database.
• Responsible to establishing and building regression testing harness and automation testing.
• Executed automated test scripts for various test scenarios using Quick TestPro.
• Created batch test scripts by calling another internal or external actions
• Manipulated Recovery Manager Steps.
• Involved in the Decomposition of the Functionality to identify the individual and reusable components
• Prepared Unix Shell Scripts and modified scripts to verify the log files data.
• Experience over performance testing to monitor throughput of the various systems. Worked with Performance Testing team for Load/Stress testing so as to predict system behavior and performance using Load Runner.
• Developed user defined functions using QTP for testing database and validating the conditions.

Environment: QTP 8.2, Quality Center 8.2, Load Runner 8.0, JAVA, Servlets, EJB, JSP, HTML, XML, Java Script, shell script, J2EE, Web Sphere, Oracle 9i, Toad, File-Zilla, Windows NT, UNIX.